The problem with being a tradwife who follows the script now being pushed on the far-right — skip college, forego a career, start having kids young and have a lot of them — is that your choice of husband becomes incredibly important. Wind up with a guy who isn’t responsible, who isn’t kind, who doesn’t respect you, and you have very little recourse when things go south. (This is why the paradigmatic ‘50s trad-moms all told their daughters to go to college and have a career! That’s partially why we got feminism!). But the guys who are most eager to land tradwives do not seem to respect women or value their contributions, if these dudes on X are any indication. I’m pro-marriage and pro-family, and I think there are a lot of advantages to having kids early, and I also think it’s great for kids when a parent can stay home, but it’s malpractice to build a movement around telling women to set themselves up for significant lifetime risk.